Our founding fathers fought a revolution for less.

Inheritance tax on stuff that has already been taxed. Capital gains taxes on houses I’ve already purchased, paid property taxes, rental taxes, business licenses, etc. Taxes on stocks, etc.

50% atleast for the common American. If George Washington was alive, there would be blood in the streets. Weve become just a bit too civilized to do the hard jobs. Dont want to get our hands dirty. People at church might look at us funny.

If a car is sold every couple of years, how many times would it have to be sold before the govt makes more on the car than the company that built it? Fro the manufacturing of the parts till the third or fourth time the car changes hands? All taxes considered. I figure (on average) every car in America that is 20+ yrs old, the govt has made more on it than Ford or Chevrolet. Taxed, retaxed and then taxed again, multiple taxes on the same product.

Now lets talk about that land we "own".

I'm just glad I've already got my federal tax refund before all those IRS employees got laid off.

The ones weve always had or the 80000 new ones? Which was it got laid off? And im pretty sure theres been plenty of people waited months for their refund every year before now and plenty of people got their refund quicker than expected well before your president hired the extra 80000 extra employess. Dont cry too much for those laid off employess, there are jobs opening up every few minutes as the illegals are getting deported. If they really want to work, theyll be able to.

They had not hired 80,000 new employees yet.

I own 4 vehicles and a boat. The oldest car is 14 years old, the newest is 7 years old, and the boat is 21 years old. My tag renewals last month were almost $800. It’s ridiculous.

Thats good news. Reckon why? They had been talking about it for over a year.

Because nobody wants to work. It's hard enough to hire one, much less 80k

Between work and personal vehicles i pay over 1k in tags each May🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

That’s all?

What's this "Refund" thingy ya'll talkin bout?

Reckon why they didnt hire them "refugees"? That is why they came here, right?

Think they can beat the bid I got from Juan and his two amigos to paint the inside of my house?

I doubt they would do it for any price. Theres alot of different sides to that cheap labor deal. Im pretty sure i would beat the price of the mexican tree crew. Most mexicans (mexican owned crews)in construction around here are charging just about like everyone else. Painters might be a bit different. Not much overhead so they can charge less. I worked on hurricane jobs where fema hired about anyone who applied, gave them a clipboard and rulebook and theyd watch me climb trees and order me around like theyd been cutting trees all their life. For the most part, around here, the day of the cheap mexican labor is a thing of the past. And mexicans despise us for treating them poorly when they came here for a better life. Just about the only cheap mexican labor around here is farm work.

Definitely not if you could even get them to actually come out there to quote it.

There are 2 times a year that I get upset. Tax time and when I have to go get my DL renewed. And I understand I don’t get it renewed every year but yall know what I mean.

I see the OP listed “local income tax”. Do some cities or counties charge income tax?

Obviously the problem with government is it’s grossly inefficient. That goes without saying. But it does provide most of the infrastructure we use. There are some good things the government provides that we would not want to do without so I understand and agree with the concept of paying taxes. It’s just the percentage that I don’t agree with. We should be doing less government with less taxes.

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Depends on how much stuff of yours, that Juan and his two amigos make off with!